786 examples of veer in sentences

I was unaware she was a witness until this moment," returned Mr. Walters, with a discreet glance in the direction of Detective Rolfe, as an indication to His Honour that the judicial storm might safely veer in that direction.

It was a queer sensation to peer through field glasses and see the Russian shells veer a few hundred feet to the right.

Now silent, now gabbling all together, the flock would veer and scatter and draw together again, and finally swing in toward the shore, every neck drawn straight as a string the better to see what was going on.

And when the watches had been picked, they had all hands to 'bout ship, the which, to the pleasure of all, she accomplished; for under such gear and with so much growth upon her bottom, they had feared that we should have to veer, and by this we should have lost much distance to leeward, whereas we desired to edge so much to windward as we could, being anxious to put space between us and the weed-continent.

"My foot on the ice-berg has lighted, When hoarse the wild winds veer about; My eye when the bark is benighted, Sees the lamp of the light-house go out.

That huge rent, the Veer Gat, opened once again, more deeply than before; whole towns were buried, and their inhabitants drowned.

"We veer to the left here, and pass out to sea over Queenstown, don't we, Colin?" "According to our mapped-out plan that's the course," came the reply, as the pilot shifted his levers, and headed a little more toward the south.

And from this may be discovered the line of boundary between the Tragic and the Horrid: which line, however, will veer a little this way or that, according to the prevailing manners of the age or country, and the peculiar associations of ideas, or idiosyncracy of mind, of individuals.

I had helped him occasional in the beginning,learned him how to veer and haul a brace, let go or belay a sheet,but let him alone generally speaking, and went about my own business.

At one time they were heard rowing towards our fleet, and it was supposed they intended setting our ships on fire; on which Neuva ordered to veer out more cable, to get farther off.

She was undergoing an inward revolution that would make it impossible for her ever again to veer so far from the line of duty to her father, her family and to herself.

A third flash of lightning confirmed our fears as to the dangerous situation we were in; and as there was not room to veer the helm was immediately put a-lee; but, as was feared, the cutter refused stays.

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Aided by the rake of the stern of an old-fashioned Philadelphia-built ship, nothing was easier than to veer upon the cable, let the vessel drop in to the island, until the kedges actually hung over the rocks, and then lower the last down.

I'll veer about with it, And meet him in all fashions.

" By a yet more unfortunate adaptation of modern technical phraseology, the simple direction of Helenus, "Læva tibi tellus, et longo læva pelantur Æquora circuitu: dextrum fage lillus et undas," is translated, "Tack to the larboard, and stand off to sea, Veer starboard sea and land:" a counsel which, I shrewdly suspect, would have been unintelligible, not only to Palinurus, but to the best pilot in the British navy.

Quite likely the sight of Gadabout, fluttering her flags down there in Eppes Creek, made those wise old gander leaders veer in a way somewhat disconcerting to their faithful followers.

SEE VAN DER VEER, JUDY.

VAN DER VEER, JUDY.

Judy Van der Veer (A); 17Mar71; R502315. VAN DOREN, MARK.

He could see the charge of the 8th Lancerssee the horsemen wheel and veer wildly as they received the fire of the Confederate troops from the woods across the stream, squadron after squadron sheering off at a gallop and driving past the infantry, pell-mell, a wild riot of maddened horses, yelling riders, and streaming scarlet pennons descending in one vivid, headlong torrent to the bridge.

It will veer off in a few moments, when they find out that they're shelling our hospitals.

No sooner did his foot reach the bows of le Feu-Follet again than he shouted: "Veer away!pay out cable, men, if you would save our beautiful lugger from destruction!"

Veer Star-board Sea and Land.

So strangely contradictory was the marchesa that, although nothing could possibly be more advantageous to her own schemes than this marriage, she might, if indiscreetly pressed, veer round, and, in spite of her interest, refuse to listen to another syllable on the subject.

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